US Patent Issued to Equifax, Fidelity Information Services on March 25 for "Confirming authenticity of a user to a third-party system" (Georgia, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,846, issued on March 25, was assigned to Equifax Inc. (Atlanta) and Fidelity Information Services Inc. (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Confirming authenticity of a user to a third-party system" was invented by Helcio Cano (Peachtree Corners, Ga.), Rich Huffman (Roswell, Ga.), Ravindra Bijlani (Alpharetta, Ga.), Richard Michaelson (Shoreview, Minn.), Rob Harris (Minneapolis), Vivian Van Zyl (Atlanta), Esther Pigg (Duluth, Ga.) and Marty Romain (Oakdale, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telecommunications network server system provides a digital identifier to a user device. The digital identifier may include identification data correspon...